Chesterville, Franklin County
County · Incorporated · Previous Designations · Boundary Changes · Villages, Locations and Settlements · Adjacent Towns and Townships · Maps · Cemeteries · Vital Records · Miscellaneous Resources · Military Records · General Resources · Bibliography
County
Franklin County (set off from Lincoln County to Kennebec County in 1799, to Franklin County in 1838)
Incorporated
1802 from Chester Plantation
Previous Designations
Chester; Chester and Wyman Plantation (Wyman's Plantation, to the south and east of Chester, was incorporated in 1802 as Vienna)
Boundary Changes
Part of Wilton was annexed in 1811, and three lots from Vienna in 1847
The boundary with Vienna was defined in 1852
Villages, Locations and Settlements
Chester (former post office), Chesterville, Chesterville Hill, Farmington Falls (formerly Messee Contee, or Messucontu), North Chesterville (formerly Keith's Mills), South Chesterville (former post office)
Adjacent Towns and Townships
Farmington, Fayette, Jay, New Sharon, Vienna, Wilton
Maps
Maine Historical Maps: Chesterville
Cemeteries
Vital Records
Early Families of Chesterville: Alexander to Gould
Early Families of Chesterville: Hall to Moulton
Early Families of Chesterville: Nason to Young, Plus some additional Misc. Deaths and Marriages
Miscellaneous Resources
Town Officers of Chesterville, 1802-1858
Military Records
World War I Soldiers Index: Chesterville
General Resources
FamilySearch Catalog: Chesterville, Franklin, Maine
Maine Memory Network: Chesterville
Bibliography
______, Inventory of the town and city archives of Maine: no. 4 Franklin County, vol. IV: Chesterville (Portland, Me.: Historical Records Survey, 1939)
______, The Town register, Farmington, Wilton, Chesterville, New Sharon: 1910 (Brunswick, Me.: Maine Map & Register Co., 1910)
Butler, Ben, and Natalie Butler, Father Sewall and his Zion's Hill neighborhood, Chester (Chesterville, Maine), c. 1800 ([Farmington, Me.: Farmington Historical Society, 1967])
Chaney, Josiah B., History of Chesterville, Maine: being in a series of letters or chapters written to his friend, Thomas Merryman of Moline, Illinois: second series with appendix (typescript, 1893)
Lilly, Georgiana H., comp., Chesterville, Maine records ([Hallowell, Me.: Mary Kelton Dummer Chapter, D.A.R., 1940-1941])
Sewall, Oliver, History of Chesterville, Maine (Farmington, Me.: J.S. Swift, 1875)
Whittier, Cindy, et al., Chesterville memories: a bicentennial history scrapbook, 1802-2002 ([Maine: s.n.], 2005 (Portland, Me.: Walch Publishing))
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